New Delhi: The CBI arrested two persons on Friday in Jharkhand in connection with the paper leakage of NEET – UG entrance exam – 2024 on Saturday.

The CBI conducted searches at seven locations in Gujarat on Saturday and arrested a journalist Jamaluddin Ansari in Jharkhand. CBI which is probing the alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG entrance exam, conducted searches at seven locations in Gujarat on Saturday and arrested a journalist in Jharkhand.

According to the official sources, identifying the arrested journalist as Jamaluddin Ansari, who works with a Hindi newspaper in Jharkhand. He was arrested on Friday for allegedly trying to help Principal Ehsanul Haque and Vice – Princiapal Imtiaz Alam of Oasis School in Hazaribagh.

Both of them are accused in the paper leak case and were taken into custody yesterday. The CBI investigating teams on Saturday searched seven premises of suspects in Gujarat’s Anand, Kheda, Ahmedabad, and Godhra districts.

These searches were conducted as part of the agency’s probe into a larger conspiracy spread across Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar, Delhi, and Jharkhand.

A special CBI court in Godhra on Saturday granted the probe agency four-day custody of Jay Jalaram School’s principal Purushottam Sharma, teacher Tushar Bhatt, and middlemen Vibhor Anand and Arif Vohra, all of whom are alleged to be involved in irregularities in the May 5 NEET-UG exam in Godhra, said official sources.

The Gujarat Police had arrested five people, including the principal and the teacher, in connection with the paper leak case. The CBI has registered six FIRs in the case. The FIR from Bihar pertains to the leakage of the paper while the remaining from Gujarat and Rajasthan pertains to the impersonation of candidates and cheating.